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Improving Environmental Outcomes Through the Media: An Evaluation of How Support for Journalism Changes Environmental and Climate-Related Policy and Practice

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Arthur Félicien Sabi-Djaboudi
In: Politique(s) de communication, enjeux et défis de la mondialisation: reculs et avancées de l'expérience gabonaise
Arthur Félicien Sabi-Djaboudi
Louvain-la-Neuve: L'Harmattan – Academia (2021), pp. 325-335
"Après l’ingénierie, les équipements et la fourniture des programmes, la formation professionnelle est le troisième axe de la coopération des pays africains avec les pays occidentaux. L’assistance des pays ou d’agences étrangères a permis de créer des centres de formation dans certains ... more
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Media and Freedom of Expression

International Reports (Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung), volume 37, issue 3 (2021), pp. 2-99
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Manufacturing the Liberal Media Model Through Developmentality in Malawi

Suzanne Temwa Harris
In: Media, Development and Democracy
Heloisa Pait, Juliana Laet (eds.)
Bingley: Emerald Publishing (2021), pp. 23-44
"When questioning the relationship between media, development, and democracy, especially in the ill-defined “Global South,” it’s important to go beyond the commonly held meta-narratives that frame these concepts as common sense. In a quest to investigate alternative characterizations of these ... more
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The politics of impunity: A study of journalists’ experiential accounts of impunity in Bulgaria, Democratic Republic of Congo, India, Mexico and Pakistan

Jackie Harrison, Stefanie Pukallus
Journalism, volume 22, issue 2 (2021), pp. 303-319
"Definitions of impunity regarding crimes against journalists have thus far been too narrow. Therefore, we propose a new approach to understanding impunity as also being grounded in journalists’ lived reality and perceptions to better understand the complexity and breadth of impunity. It is based ... more
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Television in Africa in the Digital Age

Gilbert Motsaathebe, Sarah H. Chiumbu (eds.)
Cham: Palgrave Macmillan (2021), xxi, 295 pp.
"This book places television in Africa in the digital context. It addresses the onslaught of multimedia platforms, digital migration and implication of this technology for society. The discussions in the chapters contained in this book encompass a wide range of issues such as digital disruption of t ... more
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How Media and Communication Are Helping to Tackle Malaria in Sierra Leone

Mariama Deen-Swarray, Karen O'Connor
London: BBC Media Action (2021), 11 pp.
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Gukurahundi: Das Laute Schweigen

Zimbabwe im Fokus, issue 72 (2021), pp. 5-15
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The Politics of Impunity and the Shifting Media Landscape in Kenya

Philip Onguny
Athens Journal of Mass Media and Communications, volume 7, issue 1 (2021), pp. 61-78
"This article focuses on state-media relations and the shifts in the overall media landscape in Kenya. Drawing on a political economy approach to media operations in Kenya, it argues that while there are competing meanings over what constitutes "news values", "editorial independence", and "critical ... more
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Communication traditionnelle et moderne pour un objectif commun: L'exemple du peuple vili au Congo-Brazzaville

Jean-Michel Tchitembo
Paris: L'Harmattan (2021), 196 pp.
"Pour le peuple vili en République du Congo-Brazzaville, comme ailleurs en Afrique subsaharienne, la communication orale était de mise. L’oralité avait son importance surtout au Muanze, sorte d’institution de vie communautaire. De nos jours, en Afrique en général et en milieu vili en partic ... more
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Privacy and Personal Data Protection in Africa: Advocacy Toolkit

African Declaration on Internet Rights and Freedoms Coalition (2021), 85 pp.
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Investigative Journalism

Hugo de Burgh, Paul Lashmar (eds.)
London; New York: Routledge, 3rd ed. (2021), xvi, 299 pp.
"This 3rd edition maps the new world of Investigative Journalism, where technology and globalisation have connected and energized journalists, whistle-blowers and the latest players, with far-reaching consequences in politics and business worldwide. In this new edition, expert contributors demonstra ... more
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Smart Migration Guide: Ghana

Susanne Bellinghausen, Sara Budarz et al.
Migrant Media Network; r0g_agency for open culture and critical transformation (2021), 59 pp.
"The #MMN Smart Migration Guide offers information, discussion topics, and resources to be used by trainers and potential migrants to learn about the impact and consequences of migration. The guide is designed to support individuals in clarifying their goals and in making informed, safer migration d ... more
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Widerstand: Drei Generationen antikolonialer Protest in Kamerun = Resistance: Trois générations de lutte anticoloniale au Cameroun

Initiative Perspektivwechsel (ed.)
Bonn: Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (bpb); Initiative Perspektivwechsel (2021), 145, 145 pp.
"In den Comicgeschichten werden drei Generationen antikolonialen Widerstands in Kamerun skizziert. Das zentralafrikanische Land war 35 Jahre lang deutsche Kolonie. Die Geschichten des kamerunischen Königs Duala Manga Bell, der Anlu-Rebellion der Kom-Frauen sowie des Aktivisten André Blaise Essama ... more